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A Blue A Gold A Red A White B Blue B Gold B Red B White C Blue C Gold C Red C White O/65 Blue O/65 Green O/65 White Masters Matters Issue No 10 October 2020 Masters Matters October 2020 Issue No 10 Issue No 5 Regular Features: Irregular Features: Dates For The Diary: This Page. WHM Annual General Meeting: This Page. Department of Corrections: Page 3. C Division Expansion: This Page and Page 11. Department of Health: Page 3. WHM History Update: Page 3. Letters to the Editor: Page 4. Welcome to New Players: Page 3. A Division Blog: Page 5. Parking at Curtin: Page 4. Saturday Hockey Masters: Page 6. Hips / Knees Update: Page 8. The Balinese Bulletin: Page 7. Whistle While You Work: Page 8. B Division Report: Page 9, 10,11. C Division Team Lists: Page 11. Test Your Hockey Knowledge: Page 11. Hockey WA Special Events: Page 12. WHM AGM: Thanks to excellent planning, organisation and preparation our meeting went smoothly. By now you all should have received a copy of the minutes, which reveal no change to our office bearers. One significant announcement came from Tony Jones who is working on a strategic plan for the future of WHM. As well as the recently added ‘B’ Division Red team two more ‘C’ Division sides will join the competition shortly. Our hot weather policy was also discussed; for the benefit of newer members it reads (in brief): “We will not conduct formal fixtures on days on which the forecast temperature for Perth (as disseminated by the Bureau of Meteorology at (9:00 am) exceeds 37°. The turfs will be available for informal play but at players’ own risk. This policy will be managed by the WHM Committee and communicated to players by email. Saturday Hockey Masters has a separate protocol to deal with the warm weather, due to its coastal venue” C Division Expansion: Our team numbers have just reached a record 12 across the three Divisions and now are about to grow even further. Two more sides are due to be added to C Division as from the 14th October. Our resident limericist got a look at the order for shirts and socks: Our teams are to number fourteen The highest it ever has been Colin and TJ Went onto E-Bay And now we’ve a Black and a Green. New Email for Treasurer: Steve Farrar has a new contact address. In future please address all your communications to [email protected]. Dates For The Diary: 2020: October 7th: A Division at Hale. 1:00 to 4:00 pm. October 11th: Southern Cross AGM - conducted via Zoom. October 14th: C Division to be expanded to 6 teams. October 17th: Official start of Saturday O/65s summer season. October 31st: Saturday Masters AGM and end of season dinner - Perry Lakes. December 16th: Hips versus Knees - PHS. Followed by WHM’s Christmas Party. 2021: July 23rd to August 8th. Tokyo Olympics. Masters World Cups: Australia, Southern Cross and Alliance. O/35 and O/40 Men and Women - Nottingham, England. August 13th to 22nd. O/45, O/50 and O/55 Men; O/45, O/50, O55, O/60, O/65 Women; Spirit of Masters - Cape Town SA. September 18th to 27th. O/60, O/65, O70 and O/75 Men; Spirit of Masters - Tokyo, Japan. November 7th to 17th. Mega Interstate Tournament: Women: Newcastle September 23rd to October 2nd. Men: Newcastle September 24th to October 9th. Page 2 Masters Matters October 2020 Issue No 10 Issue No 5 Department of Health: Peter Wallis is investigating a possible knee replacement and will be out of action for some time. Julian Gardner is now in rehab at Osborne Park Hospital, is still improving and welcomes visitors. He’s in Block B, Level 1, Room 14. Harvey Davies has completed the cancer treatment which seems to have produced the desired result(s). However he now has some cardiac issues and is consulting experts at the moment. But the new Tesla has arrived and is being enjoyed. John Burt has had a suspected TIA stroke, but says he is making good progress and thinks it may have been a false alarm. Bob Bowyer is having (or has had) his first operation on 2nd October, and hopefully the second one will be two weeks after that. Keith Kessell made an attempted comeback at Perry Lakes, but appears to have ongoing problems and is consulting a spinal surgeon. In better news Peter Willett, Angelo Strano and Colin Sanders have all made what appeared to be successful returns to hockey. A speedy recovery to everybody, including anybody not mentioned. WHM History: All the years from 1991 to 2019 have now been completed in draft form. Electronic copies have been given to the providers of documents and a printed version to George Winning. All that remains to be done is some proof-reading and the addition of a foreword or two. We then have to work out a method to make it more generally available and to store the document archive which has been generated by the project. It will be a real challenge to add the current year to the document when this eventful 2020 comes to a close. Saturday Masters AGM and Dinner: We are sorry that the dates for this function became a movable feast due to events beyond our control. Our original date was October 10th. Now there are 8 O/60 teams playing at Perry Lakes on that afternoon, which would have had a severe impact on our access to the clubrooms and kitchen. We attempted to move the date to the 17th but after making all the arrangements with the caterer discovered that the YMCA club windup is on that night. October 3rd would be risky as it is hockey Grand Final day and club teams may come back to the clubrooms for a post match celebration. October 24th is the date of the AFL Grand Final. So we hope that nothing will go amiss with our eventual compromise date of October 31st. WHM Sun Hats: The information in our last issue was incorrect. The orange, lime and black hats Robin showed me were just single samples. You can have any colour you like as long as it’s yellow. But at least they really do come in more than one size and the price is $15. Department of Corrections: As can be seen from the previous paragraphs the September edition has a lot of incorrect information. Apologies for any confusion caused, especially to Robin Bailey, for all the players who asked for hats of another hue to the one available. It is a truth generally known that some blokes in hats have a better time than anybody else. According to our limericist: Our heat gear is nicely on track But maybe there still is one lack They keep off the sun But don’t offer fun That’s just for the ones who wear black. It was my considered opinion that the guys in the black hats had all the fun in the old Westerns. Ed. Welcome to New Players: A warm welcome is extended to Crez D’Vaz (Mods) who will play in C Division and Lance Woods (ex YMCA now Whitfords) who will play in A Division. All the best to you both for your time with Western Hockey Masters. (Lance already plays occasionally at Perry Lakes) Quotable Quote 1: “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 -1821). It is hoped that our WHM History will pass the test. Page 3 Masters Matters October 2020 Issue No 10 Issue No 5 Letters To The Editor: Since the last issue I’ve heard from Steve Farrar (‘Whistle While you Work’), Chris Morley, Greg Allen, Russell Wood (change of email), Neil Patterson and Nev Brown. And I hope that Peter Selfe (mentioned last issue as a new player) got his hockey stick back. Chris Morley has a suggestion: Had a thought about a possible new segment, entitled ‘Did You Know’ or similar, covering interesting items of hockey trivia. Mine is an observation on the make-up of the Westside Wolves O55/O60s team that enjoyed great success between about 2005 and 2017. The item of interest is that there were, for some time during that period, no less than four pairs of brothers on our team list: Dick and Alan Osborne Graeme and Ken Walter Bill and Jamie Price Peter and Tony Morgan It’s not known (at least by me) whether all eight of these guys took the field simultaneously but there’s no reason to suppose not. If so, they would have left very little room for anyone else. Is this a record? - at any level, anywhere? These days, only Dick and the Morgans are still playing regularly for Wolves, with Alan and Ken only very occasionally available. Maybe your readers could be invited to contribute similar types of stories? Thank you Chris - this story reminds me of the days when hockey clubs were very much family affairs. It was not unknown for multiple generations to be in the playing ranks. Now it’s up to our readers; please send in any stories you have along these lines. Ed. Stiffness A Problem After A Game Of Hockey? Thanks to Greg Allen for the following advice. “I thought I’d pass on a bit of interesting information that your readers, in particular those who’ve had prostate surgery, may be interested in.